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How Small Things Still Matter – A 9/11 Story

What makes an employee file a lawsuit? Or what makes an employee give an employer the benefit of the doubt? I think about this question sometimes in the middle of lawsuits. I try to figure out what went wrong in the relationship between the employer and the employee. After all, at some point, both thought that they were in for a long relationship together. Both had big hopes and dreams. Somewhere the relationship went off track. The answers as to what that happens are normally complicated; it’s typically a variety of things, sometimes small, that when taken together lead to a falling out. I’m struck by those little details that people remember years later. The forgotten “thank you”.  Or the employer that remembers that the employee left early on a March Madness weekend before a big deal was supposed to close. On the flip side, though, some employers escape such a fate often times by doing the little things that people remember in an employee’s (or empl...